1) "You Will Miss Me When I Burn" - Palace Brothers from Days In The Wake [ Buy it ] 2) "Leave The City" - Magnolia Electric Co. from What Comes After The Blues [ Buy it ] 3) "Steal The Crumbs" - Uncle Tupelo from Anodyne [ Buy it ] 4) "Round and Round (It Won't [...]
Murder By Death have announced plans to release a split 73 series comprised of 7 records. Each split will consist of the band trading cover songs with their musical friends and peers, and you can expect a new one to be released every three months. The first record (out October 20th) will be with William Elliott Whitmore. Other artists confirmed so far are the Dresden Dolls and O'Death. To preorder the Whitmore split, head right here
Yay. Whoo hoo! One of my absolute favorite bands in the world are releasing a collection of 73 splits on which they will trade cover songs with friends. The first in this awesome collection...
We missed last month's mixtape...hell, in all honesty, I missed a lot of stuff last month but things have returned to their equilibrium and a comfortable routine is returning to my life. With the routine comes the return of the monthly Lucero message board mixtape post. This month's is coming online just in time for me. I am 3 days from hopping on an airplane and heading up to Minneapolis for The Deep Blues Festival for 4 days od whiskey, lies and punkass blues...While I am physically still here in St. Petersburg, mentally I already have one foot out the [...]
well it was robert ford, that dirty little coward i wonder now how he feels for he ate of jesse's bread and he slept in jesse's bed and he laid poor jesse in his grave pete seeger: jesse james well kindof. it seems that in order to watch a modern western you have to have some grounding in metaphysics and psychology. another revisionist [...]
There's something about a fella with a throat full o' gravel that really gets me goin'. If your throat can produce the 50-fags a day effect, then I'm sold. If you're singing something, I'll like it. If you're talking to me, I'm interested. The new Man Man to me is something close to Tom Waits I can dance to; 'club waits' if you will. This track is taken from their forthcoming album Rabbit Habits . The dinky xylophones, gravy roll of scratchy vocals and roughshod production is Waits all over. But [...]
Image: cropped still from Fa yeung nin wa / In the Mood for Love With Valentine's Day as an excuse to finally finish this long-in-progress playlist, it suddenly appeared that this is actually an ode to After I Made Love to You by Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, the best song ever written about sex. And it couldn't feel more perfect than to post this song today. The theme of this playlist is obvious. The songs unite in lyrical content, dealing with love, relationships and sex. "If everything is imperfect [...]
i didn't want the best of list to fall on a tuesday as this is a lot of tuneage for one day. oh well. shit happens. lee hazlewood - friday's child lucero - the weight of guilt william elliott whitmore - the buzzard's won't cry [...]
What can I say. The music is slowing down when it comes to new releases, so it's the time for bloggers to redesign their site and join the circle jerk of year end lists (yes, we will be doing at least one of these). So instead of trying to track down another flash in the pan to tie you over, I decided to go back to last year's number one and give you some great music. William Whitmore : one man, one banjo, lots of shots of whiskey. His record - Song of the Blackbird [...]
top o' the afternoon people. man its beautiful here in atlanta today. the one thing i will never get used to though is that the wind is quite cool but that damn sun is, well, freakin hot. if i were you, i would not miss william elliot whitmore tonight at smiths olde bar. i, unfortunately, have to miss him cause i am working but you really have no excuse except maybe pure laziness. i have not seem him yet, but from all reports, he is supposedly pretty amazing. the chariot from song of [...]
Here are a few of the songs that have played on this morning's iPod shuffle in our house. Sure beats listening to songs from Blues Clues, Little Einsteins, or any of the other Playhouse Disney shows that Hailey watches. It's never too early to start your kids on good music. MP3 | Laura Veirs - Rialto Year Of Meteors MP3 | Hot Water Music - At The End Of A Gun No Division [...]
2. william elliott whitmore - 'song of the blackbird' or from: my excitement was probably very noticeable back then when i urged everyone to keep an eye out for this record . see, i had reasons. what i think and feel about will and his music is already quite apparent in that review, so i can spare you all the redundant [...]
William Elliott Whitmore - Song Of The Blackbird ( Southern ) The best thing to come out of Keokuk, Iowa since Mr. Mister.
If you haven't yet listened to the music of William Elliott Whitmore, stop what you are doing and stream the two tracks below. My wife and I have been lucky enough to have seen William Elliott Whitmore live a few times, and his performances have (without fail) floored me. Every single time. With a gruff and booming voice that has been compared to Tom Waits and Johnny Cash, he plays rural folk blues that even hardcore kids and punks can relate to. Throw some banjo, guitar, and harmonica into the mix and what you have is [...]
Every year around this time I start to wonder what new bands and music I will stumble upon in the next year. I decided to list the 5 bands I was most happy to discover in 2006. And by most happy I mean they got the most playing time in the iPod and CD players in the Autopsy household. ---------------- Drag The River I posted an apology to these guys earlier in the year for ignoring them because of their name. I finally got to see them live a few weeks ago and it was as [...]
[ed. note - Thanks to Juliette for telling me that she was not tired of hearing me talk. Party of one, party of one, your table is ready.] Once again, Daytrotter is the win with their lengthily titled article on William Elliott Whitmore . You might imagine a skinny white boy from Iowa when you hear a name like that, and you'd be right. But if you heard the music without a name attached to it, you'd think of an old bluesman, voice torn from use, sitting on a porch in Alabama somewhere. [...]
photo by Curtis Lehmkuhl T he good folks over at Daytrotter have done it yet again with their recording of William Elliot Whitmore in studio. Every week for some time now they've been adding small studio sets of great artists traveling through. Catch this week's recordings of William and his sometimes dark, always intriguing work. mp3 shoebox [...]
(Artwork courtesy of Daytrotter) If you weren't a completest before starting an mp3 blog then I guarantee you you will be one after you start. In particular I'm presently in the midst of finding every known recording of William Elliott Whitmore. Today's track is from a cd/dvd companion called Let's Be Active :Keep the fuzz off my buzz of a tour by William, Paradise Island and Let's Be Active. Farther Along Here's a trailer of the dvd [...]
The most astute observation I’ve probably read all year is Ryan noting that William Elliott Whitmore has the kind of voice that “ will make a room full of talking assholes shut up for 45 minutes and not say one word .†It’s a comment I go back to nearly every time I listen to Whitmore, and every time, I’m reminded of how right it is. This is a voice that cannot and should not be ignored, imbued with a hardscrabble hoarseness that make the downtrodden tales it delivers all that more powerful. [...]
there is no singer today that can put you in another place and time better than william elliott whitmore . listening to william is to put yourself in a smokey off a dark alley club somewhere in the heart of mississippi during the depression. he is blessed with a voice that is part modern day tom waits and as alluded to above part depression era bluesman. in my opinion, he is one of the most important up and coming american artists. here is a recent show, 9.1.06, from the picador in iowa city, [...]
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